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Photos from the 1993 LGBT March on Washington

Many of these images are scans of prints I made shortly after the March, along with some more recent scans of the negatives. Be sure to check out the gallery at the bottom of the page for a wider selection of images. (updated June 19, 2017.)

Disabled participants at the head of the march wait for the signal to start.Spectators watch the march from in front of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

A group of guys watch from a building overlooking the march route.

A rally on the National Mall followed the march.

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A woman picks up a sign before the march.

Signs calling for an end to the ban on military service by LGBT people.

March marshalls head for the organizing area after an early morning rally.

Two people walk towards the starting point of the march.

Participants in wheel chairs leading the march wait for the starting signal.

Lady Liberty.

The march moves along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Spectators along the march route.

Some marchers came in costumes.

A marcher along Pennsylvania Avenue.

The march moves along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Guys watch the march from their hotel window.

Spectators watch the march from in front of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Guys hang out of their hotel window to see the march.

An anti-march protester at Freedom Plaza.

A man standing with Westboro Baptist Church members taunts marchers.

Hecklers at Freedom Plaza.

A woman responds to hecklers.

Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is attended to after being maced by a marcher.

Marshals separate marchers from protesters.

Gay veterans respond to taunting protesters.

Marchers spar with hecklers at Freedom Plaza.

Spectators greet each other along the march route.

A gay veteran responds to chants from Westboro Baptist Church members at Freedom Plaza.